Professor Turkan Kopac earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in 1983 and a Master of Science degree in 1985 from Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Türkiye. She completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1992 at Gazi University, also in Ankara. In 1994, she conducted eight months of postdoctoral research at the University of Surrey's Department of Chemical and Process Engineering in Guildford, UK. Her research interests encompass adsorption, catalysis, gas capture and storage, nanomaterials, and nano-bio interactions. Since 2002, she has been a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University in Türkiye. Her administrative roles include serving as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1999 to 2002, Dean of the Faculty from 2002 to 2008, Director of the Environmental Problems Research and Application Center from 2003 to 2010, and Vice Rector of Zonguldak Karaelmas University from 2008 to 2010. Additionally, she held a position as a visiting project professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in Taipei from 2019 to 2021. In 2022 and 2023, she spent one month as a visiting scholar and adjunct faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the United States.